Excerpt from The Yale Review, Vol. 7: 1917-18 In the House of Commons the statement was made some time ago that it needs a man and a half behind the line to keep one man in the trenches; and that is only at the front. How many men, women, and children at home are needed to keep going the man with the rifle and hand grenade, we can only conjecture, but if we say ten civilians to every fighting man we shall not be exaggerating. This is what is meant by Civic Armies and National Organization. But do not imagine that this organization, this replacement of the old style war of armies by the modern style of war on the factory system, means only a transfer of leadership from the battle field to the rear. Before the brain-racking complexity of this organizing task at home the genius of the civic leaders has been functioning with as moderate success as the military talents of the leaders on the front. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.